
Barbara Lee and Marco Ibanez can't tell the difference between a gang sign and a road sign.
Alfred Stewart, a 31-year-old deaf mute, was out with a group of friends at the Ocean’s Eleven Lounge in Hallendale Beach, Florida, on Saturday night when they caught the eye of 45-year-old gang-banger Barbara Lee. Stewart and his friends are deaf and communicate via sign language, which Lee mistakenly assumed were gang signs. I guess in Florida there are lots of completely deaf gangs that communicate via made-up hand gestures. Lee left, but soon returned with 19-year-old Marco Ibanez and a 17-year-old. Lee and her gang attacked a group of deaf partiers after mistaking them for a rival gang.
It sounds like an urban legend, doesn’t it? Like a joke about how dumb gangs are that they can’t distinguish between American Sign Language and gang signs without the aid of a gang card, but apparently it’s true. The signs were misinterpreted, and that caused Ibanez to go on a stabbing spree that injured five people, the four in Stewart’s group plus the bouncer. The injuries weren’t life-threatening, but all five were taken to the hospital for examination and treatment.
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